Introduction : The story ; The text ; The rediscovery ; The early translations -- Initial reception (1884-1935) : The first literarization ; Babel and Bible ; The German connection ; The spread of the ...

An ancient story takes shape in Marin Shakespeare Company’s capacious black box on Fourth Street in San Rafael. A retelling of one of the oldest tales in the historical era — since the advent of ...

Cuneiform tablets are among the earliest surviving written records in human history. By recreating tablets from the Epic of ...

It's the world's first epic poem but was the last to be found. Inscribed on stone tablets in the Akkadian language, the epic Gilgamesh was buried during the fall of Nineveh, its language forgotten, ...

The oldest surviving fragments of the Babylonian epic we now call Gilgamesh date back to the 18th century -- the 18th century before the Christian era, that is, more than 3,700 years ago. Etched in ...